Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.
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Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
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For me, suspense doesn’t have any value if it’s not balanced by humor.
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I’m not much into rear window ethics.
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It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
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A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.
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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
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I always take the audience into account.
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The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
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Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
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When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something – that’s as happy as I’d want to be.
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Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
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Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
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I like stories with lots of psychology.
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People don’t always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
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You think she’s pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!
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